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In 2014 we took the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the 031 crew from Bern and produced a 5MINUTES double episode. Actually it's more like a triple episode, because with 14 minutes the episode is very long. But if you are interested in what the guys from 031 had to say back then, you will take your time. Because the Crew is about to release their 500 page book (700 photos) 031 FOR THE PEOPLE via NON STOP Publishing here is the re-upload and a link to check out the books preview and trailer: https://ilovegraffiti.de/blog/2022/12... With the release of this episode there was a lot of feedback, about the film and the crew. From the Swiss media as well as from the scene. We can't repeat it often enough: we are a neutral medium that likes to look behind the scenes and let protagonists speak. Completely unreflective, we deliberately let things stand, and yes, we are convinced that it is "allowed" to do so. This has been our approach for many years and will remain so. In this sense, have fun with 031BERN. 5MINUTES is a project by ILOVEGRAFFITI.DE in cooperation with ARTE. http://ilovegraffiti.de #graffiti #ilovegraffiti #031crew #trainwriting

El presente artículo pretende abrir un debate sobre las limitaciones que presupone fijar los slams poéticos como actos en los que su belicismo se subraya como el mayor aspecto definitorio y de mayor atracción para el público. Se analizarán artículos de prensa recientes y demás publicaciones para contraponerlos a un argumento en el que la posible competitividad de estos eventos poéticos se vincula a la audiencia que asiste a ellos, considerada ente esencial para el desarrollo de los slams. Todo ello se llevará a cabo con el apoyo de la escasa literatura que existe –pese a su enorme éxito– alrededor de los slams en España y de los estudios académicos sobre perfopoesía realizados en el mundo anglosajón, y se explorará el slam como actividad vinculada a la risa o a lo carnavalesco. Asimismo, el artículo pretende analizar su naturaleza de fenómeno social y literario, y explorar el impacto y las repercusiones que el gran éxito del poetry slam puede acarrear para la poesía española contemporánea. Lecturas del desierto: nuevas propuestas poéticas en España Presentación 7-14 Para un debate previo “El compromiso después del compromiso. Poesía, democracia y globalización (1980-2005) ” (Extracto) || Araceli Iravedra 39-55 Lecturas del desierto: nuevas propuestas poéticas en España “Antologuemos. Tendencias, inercias y derivas en las últimas antologías poéticas en la España contemporánea” || Raúl Molina Gil 57-109 “Nuevas formas de expresión en la lírica reciente: el lenguaje literario y la ruptura del horizonte de expectativas” || José Ángel Baños Saldaña 111-126 “No existen mapas para estos territorios: Rubén Martín (Díaz) y la topografía estética de la poesía española reciente” || Paul Cahill 127-144 “Sobre una “poesía que se piensa en el lenguaje”. ¿Hacia una nueva vanguardia en la poesía española? ” || Mario Martín Gijón 145-162 “ (Pa)labra[r] (en) el texto. Lector/autor en la poesía rupturista de Mario Martín Gijón” || Ewa Śmiłek 163-178 “’La alegre libertad en la catástrofe’: tensiones entre lenguaje y verdad en la poesía española joven (2011-2018) ” || Álvaro López Fernández 179-203 “A favor no es en contra; en contra es a favor. Poesía y comunicación en la actualidad” || Pablo López-Carballo || 205-220 “Lenguaje y poder en la poesía de María Salgado y de Ángela Segovia” || Guillermo Molina Morales 221-238 “¿De lo bélico a lo poético? El Poetry slam y su lucha feroz en defensa de la poesía” || Diana Cullell 239-257 “Primero el cuerpo y luego el libro: 'Voces del extremo. Antología (2012-2016)' o cómo continuar poniendo delante del capital otra imaginación política” || Ángela Martínez Fernández 259-287 “’Lugares que tienen una herida que sangra’: las geografías interiores de Fernando Valverde” || Laura Scarano 289-310 “Deixis, cuerpo e intemperie: la gramática del nuevo compromiso poético en Erika Martínez” || Javier Mohedano Ruano 311-330 “Atrapados en la red: los mundos virtuales en la poesía española reciente” || Luis Bagué Quílez 331-349 “Cuerpos, sexualidad e identidad femenina: la poesía de María Sánchez (1989), Luna Miguel (1990) y Elvira Sastre (1992) ” || Ana Cánovas 351-378 Anexo al monográfico “Lecturas del desierto. Antología y entrevistas sobre poesía actual en España” || Álvaro López Fernández, Ángela Martínez Fernández, Raúl Molina Gil

[A1] La propuesta de la presente ponencia es la de realizar un abordaje del poemario Praga (1982) del escritor Manuel Vazquez Montalbán (1939-2003), a partir del rastreo del vínculo entre poesía y memoria. La alusión lateral a un episodio central de la historia europea del siglo XX, la invasión de Praga por parte de la Unión Soviética y sus aliados del Pacto de Varsovia, hecho que pondría fin a la etapa de apertura política y liberalización reformista que propiciaba un socialismo con rostro humano” conocido como la Primavera de Praga (1968), permite al autor catalán llevar adelante una reelaboración del pasado a través de un viaje por la memoria personal y por la memoria histórica conjugando racconto biográfico con análisis político, tono confesional con distancia crítica. Como muchas de las obras de nuestro autor, Praga es un libro inclasificable —poema-libro” o “libropoema” (Manuel Rico); “monólogo” o “dilatada meditación” (Lluis Izquierdo)— que convierte a la capital de la actual República Checa en un auténtico “sitio de memoria”(Pierre Nora).

Emisión del programa Metrópolis titulado South Graff. Pintando la voz del barrio. El programa Metrópolis invita al experto e investigador en graffiti y arte urbano Fernando Figueroa a que seleccione una serie de proyectos en los que artistas procedentes del graffiti han dado voz a sus barrios, dignificando estos espacios desde la creatividad colectiva y desde la convivencia.

What is the role of art in the reinforcement or rejection of current models of public space management in our cities? To answer this question, we must attend to the ties of all artwork with public institutions, and whether or not it questions the dominant order. In this article, I will focus on the works of the Ana Botella Crew, a group of artists from Madrid, as an example of “artivism” that challenges the City Council’s management of public spaces in Madrid. My aim is to explore how useful internet tools can be to articulate artistic interventions that challenge the hegemonic uses of public space, in what Sassen has called the global city.

This working paper will unfold the methodological design of the PhD research project, Behind The Murals – A Participative Webdocu on the Motivations and the Reclamations of Street Art, with a focus on the incident when BLU repainted his murals at Berlin’s Cuvrybrache completely black. In contrast to BLU’s strategy – to erase his art so that it can no longer be made profitable by the investor of the lot or even by Berlin’s city marketing – I aim to investigate what other strategies against the reclamation of street art are imaginable. The main methodological question is, how is it possible to carry out this research in such a way that its results support the communities (potentially) affected by gentrification/touristification to gain a voice? The experimental methods of participatory video and digital storytelling will be applied with the target of producing a participative webdocu accompanied by a locally exhibited video installation.

This article primarily investigates the city of Berlin on two levels: as a totalizing vision in which a specific perspective of urban space is imagined and built into the city and as a layered and disparate space in which urban objects are catalysts for associative narratives for rethinking the urban environment. It concentrates on two primary areas of Berlin: the Kulturforum and Bebelplatz. Looking to a creative experience of the city, the author collaborates with the artist Knut Eckstein to explore the idea of subversive space based on a performative transgression of barriers in architecture.

The phenomenon of urban art is one of the forces shaping contemporary urban spaces. Historically fought as vandalism in its “writing” component (the “black sheep” of the urban actors performing in the contemporary city), urban art has recently become more appreciated as an artistic expression, especially when regarded as a stage in the historical evolution of muralism. As several examples worldwide have shown, in the context of urban renewal, urban art can set off positive dynamics. Focusing on the Italian scene, I recognize the importance of past Italian interventions realized both in big cities, such as Rome, Turin and Bologna, and in small cities, such as Grottaglie (Taranto), Gaeta (Latina), Catanzaro, and Dozza (Bologna). In addition, the growing number of urban art festivals and public interventions seems to voice the citizens’ will to take the streets back, particularly where institutions are unable to intervene effectively in the urban domain due to political short-sightedness or lack of financial resources. The first aim of this paper is to illustrate and analyze some collective projects and informal actions through which citizens, associations, and institutions have given added value to the urban space. I will focus particularly on Turin, which has become one of the most interesting and rich urban art territories, thanks to public projects such as Murarte, Picturin, Nizzart and B.Art: Arte in Barriera. This study offers insights on how, by way of artistic deeds and apparently “weak” transformation systems, urban art may take innovative action so as to regenerate the city’s architectural heritage. The second aim of this paper is to propose a methodology for architectural surveying techniques applied to urban art. isIn current critical analysis, as well as in the representation and documentation of this type of work, the fundamental importance of the physical, architectural and urban environment in which the work is placed is often overlooked, if not completely omitted. In acknowledgment of these limitations, this paper proposes a documentation methodology that respects both the values of the process and the work itself. In this regard, painted walls must be considered as inseparable from the space in which they are located, from the material substrate supporting them, and from the time conditions in which they were realized. The process of examination and documentation therefore requires observation in situ, new digital and traditional survey techniques, and a variety of representations at different scales; with a view to understanding the reasons that led to the selection of a particular place in the city, and the way in which artistic action arises in relation to the historical environment and the social and political system that influenced its creation.

This article addresses the interaction between urban regeneration and cultural policies. Planning and developing urban transformation may foster positive and experience design through the experience economy, targeting a cohesive cultural narrative and identity. The discussed case study discussed here concerns the reuse of the AXA Building in the historic center of the city of Porto, in Portugal, as an alternative to classical integrated urban cultural policy and the promotion of free access dynamic leisure activities. In this case, the reuse of a historical building resulted from a hybrid project. Characterized by fusion, the design combined urban rehabilitation, heritage conservation and maintenance, cultural institutions, environments and experiences, social interaction, recreation, and programs aimed at improving the quality of life of both residents and visitors.

There is a need to create a documentation system adapted to facilitate the conservation and restoration of Street Art and Graffiti. Even though they are ephemeral manifestations of art, there have been some signs of the need for preservation mechanisms that would respect their own special features. For selected works we must establish a procedure that enables their preservation with the highest guarantee.

There is an abundance of books, magazines, films and internet-forums dedicated to graffiti. How this documentation has influenced and been a part of the graffiti subculture has not been studied much. Drawing on personal experiences, as a documentarian and publisher of graffiti media over 27 years, Malcolm Jacobson recollects how the positions of participant and observer incessantly have twisted around each other. This has been mediated through development in media technology as well as by the coming of age of graffiti and its practitioners.

What is the role of art in the reinforcement or rejection of current models of public space management in our cities? To answer this question, we must attend to the ties of all artwork with public institutions, and whether or not it questions the dominant order. In this article, I will focus on the works of the Ana Botella Crew, a group of artists from Madrid, as an example of “artivism” that challenges the City Council’s management of public spaces in Madrid. My aim is to explore how useful internet tools can be to articulate artistic interventions that challenge the hegemonic uses of public space, in what Sassen has called the global city.

This article addresses the notion of the socially engaged visual arts. The first part explores some fundamental historical periods to help understand this practice, from the Greek concept of teknè until the present time. Then, the idea of a machine for the emancipation of creativity is explained, as well as its operation in two neighborhoods of the Portuguese city of Amadora. Finally, as a result of this immaterial machine, the focus turns to a detailed description of an archive of audiovisual elements that represents each activity undertaken within the project.

Nowadays, walking around any city is a guarantee of seeing graffiti, while the public transportation are still a good canvas for writers. It is a well-established social phenomenon and has catch the attention of ethnographers, academic artists and other scholars that have entered the worlds of graffiti writers to explain their origins, trajectories, motivations, their identity construction, their conception of the self and their role and relation with society at large. However, still there is no synthetic effort of categorisation that provides understandable and communicable approaches to graffiti in the real world. From some sectors graffiti is still something to “deal with”. Generally speaking, authorities and dutyholders consider graffiti as threat a security and safety issue, turning it into something that needs to be addressed. For social workers, for instance, graffiti can be a means of communication with certain youth sectors or even a tool for social cohesion generation. Departing from this perspective, Graffolution was designed: an EC funded project for generating awareness and advance in the provision of best practices for tackling graffiti in Austria, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. The first rule encountered is no-one-size-fits-all and referring to graffiti and graffiti writers, this requires a complex understanding of the phenomenon, their trajectories as well as individual and collective dispositions. The aim of this paper is to provide a consistent typology of graffiti writers, offering a comprehensive picture of whose are the hands behind the graffiti cans. This serves a double level purpose: advancing at the theoretical level putting forward the sociocultural approaches to careers and social backgrounds provided by ethnographic approaches, as well as capturing the complexity of the phenomenon to serve as an operative conceptual basis for practitioners, professionals and decision makers. In doing so, the analysis is made on the transcripts obtained for 22 semi-structured interviews, carried out in the four participating countries. The transcripts have been analysed according to the “persona” methodology, which constitutes a systematic and novel approach and a qualitative technique for clustering information. As a result, three main categories have been defined according to important ambitions, challenges and stages of typical ‘journeys’ or ‘pathways’ of actors. These findings contribute to form a basis of a) highlight the misconceptions around graffiti as a petty crime, and b) offer a guide to understand graffiti writers under a socio-cultural perspective.

Recently there has been a resurgence of murals in several European and American cities. Street art visual practices have privileged murals as one of the most suitable formats to address public spaces. Despite the increasing recognition and significance of murals for the visual culture of these cities, this contemporary urban art practice has not received much attention from recent literature. This paper provides a literature review on contemporary murals, giving an account of their popularity, their relation to location-specificity and global presence, as well as the means of dissemination of such art expression. The study will then focus on a set of case studies in Lisbon, regarding the paradigmatic shift from sculpture commissioning to mural commissioning within Portuguese Brazilian cultural relationships. The works of OSGEMEOS, Bicicleta sem Freio and Nunca will be discussed in this framework, questioning what the contributions of contemporary mural works might be for the public spaces of the city.

This article sets out to show how a sociological research project on the production of street art in Lisbon was built, from the construction of an object of research to the development of a methodological approach that enabled the collection of a diverse set of expressive data. The notion of 'route' serves not only as a valuable instrument of research in the first stages of an investigation in urban sociology, but also as a powerful visual depiction of the development of a specific methodology and the set of techniques adopted. The diverse set of interrogations about the object that stem from these incursions, as well as the specific urban context at hand, allowed the researcher to conceptualize street art as a component of contemporary urban space and as a visual means to reveal social dynamics between the several actors involved in its production, and the city itself. Therefore, in this paper it is briefly shown how this object is theoretically framed, namely in what concerns the street artists and the way they build an artistic path and attribute meaning to the act of intervening artistically in the streets of the city, and how this connects with the worlds of contemporary art and the several contexts of production of street art; the contexts in which street art is currently created in Lisbon, from individual initiatives to the actions of associations or collectives, and the municipality; and the way in which the city, through its institutional powers, can instrumentalize street art as a way of creating 'images of the city', and how this can be explored in terms of tourism and the marketing of cities, and the conflict or opportunities that these processes reveal for the actors involved.

El estudio de prácticas poéticas surgidas de experiencias políticas antagonistas o, en general, vinculadas a los movimientos sociales, muestra la existencia de productos literarios que incorporan modelos, criterios y habitus (Bourdieu, 1992) propios de campos sociales no específicamente literarios. En ese marco puede ser analizada la poesía de Patricia Heras –activista queer de base, escritora inédita y artista ocasional–, que fue víctima de un montaje policial (el conocido como Caso 4F) y de un sistema represivo que la llevaron al suicidio en abril de 2011. Dado que fueron su implicación en el caso y su muerte los factores que desencadenaron la salida a la luz de sus textos literarios (poemas, guiones, diarios y narraciones), primero en el blog Poeta muerta (Putas cárceles de papel) y posteriormente en el libro Poeta muerta (Heras, 2014) este artículo desarrolla determinadas propuestas metodológicas que permiten estudiar los vínculos entre creación poética, antagonismo político y marginalidad social. La tensión público-privado en obras relacionadas con experiencias reivindicativas, los horizontes de eficacia sociopolítica previstos para textos y procesos de este tipo, o los repertorios (Even-Zohar, 1997) y criterios de reconocimiento activados en el caso de Patricia Heras son algunos de los aspectos que merecen un estudio específico.

Der vormalige Young British Artist Damien Hirst und der Street Artist Banksy sind zwei der bekanntesten Vertreter der britischen Gegenwartskunst - ihre Werke im Spannungsfeld von Kunst, Konsum und Popkultur gehören zu den meistbeachtetsten unserer Zeit. Eine systematische Aufarbeitung dieser künstlerischen Positionen und ihrer Bezüge zur Konsumkultur unserer Gegenwart hat jedoch lange auf sich warten lassen. Ulrich Blanché schließt diese Lücke: Er untersucht die Werke der Künstler vor dem Hintergrund der Londoner Kunstszene seit 1980, zeigt Verbindungen zu Duchamp, Warhol oder auch Koons auf und reflektiert die Rolle des Rezipienten, die Bedeutung der »Location« und insbesondere die Bezüge zwischen Kunst, Konsum und Werbung in diesen Werken.